What's the difference between direction and janus?

Direction


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
  • (n.) That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.
  • (n.) The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.
  • (n.) The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.
  • (n.) The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.
  • (n.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
  • (2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (3) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (4) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
  • (5) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (6) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
  • (7) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
  • (8) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (9) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
  • (10) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (11) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
  • (12) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (13) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
  • (14) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
  • (15) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
  • (16) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
  • (17) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
  • (18) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (19) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
  • (20) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.

Janus


Definition:

  • (n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A method of radioimmunoscintigraphy using bivalent "Janus" haptens with an apparent enhanced affinity ("avidity") for the antibody is described.
  • (2) Following elutriation, aliquots of cells from each of the enriched cell fractions were incubated in the presence or absence of 4 mM of 2-[(aminopropyl)amino] ethanethiol (WR-1065) for 30 min at 37 degrees C. The cells were then irradiated with 60Co gamma-rays or fission-spectrum neutrons from the JANUS research reactor.
  • (3) As a consequence, the location of the abnormal oral structures relative to the normal ones is more variable in janus doublets than in janus singlets.
  • (4) It’s a totally different country for me.” This is the Janus-faced society that is the second most populous country in Africa.
  • (5) The experimental technique was based on the injection of a 0.5 % Janus green B solution into the embryonic pharynx through a branchial slit, at the age of three days.
  • (6) The viability of Histoplasma capsulatum yeast cells grown under different conditions was determined by dye tests with Eosin-Y and Janus Green B and by colony counts of cells plated on brain-heart infusion agar supplemented with histoplasma growth factor and bovine serum albumin (BHI-SAG).
  • (7) They are alienated both by entrenched male hierarchies at work and the Janus-like disjunction between their formidable professional personas and their vulnerable private lives.
  • (8) The progeny ratios obtained in various crosses indicate that the abnormalities of cell-surface asymmetry are brought to expression as a result of the action of a recessive allele at a single gene locus, here named janus.
  • (9) The split-dose survival ratio for JANUS neutrons is 1, whereas the ratio for 137Cs gamma radiation is about 6.
  • (10) These results provide an insight into the preclinical biology of ovarian neoplasia that may help in designing methods for early detection of this disease, and demonstrate the usefulness of the JANUS serum bank as a resource in evaluating serum tests.
  • (11) However, those drugs that were found to inhibit babesial growth included compounds (shown in parentheses) that have the following putative mitochondrial targets in the parasite: ATP synthetase complex (rhodamine 123, oligomycin, Janus Green); ATP-ADP translocase (bongkrekic acid); electron transport (rotenone, n-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide (HQNO), antimycin A); ubiquinone (CoQ) function (BW58C, menoctone); protein synthesis (tetracycline); and the proton pump (CCCP).
  • (12) Solutions of acridine orange, alcian blue 8GX, alizarin red S, azure A, azure B, Congo red, cresyl violet acetate, crystal violet, eosin B, erythrosin B, ethidium bromide, Janus green B, methylene blue, neutral red, nigrosin, orcein, propidium iodide, rose Bengal, safranine O, toluidine blue O, and trypan blue could be completely decontaminated to the limit of detection and solutions of eosin Y and Giemsa stain were decontaminated to very low levels (less than 0.02 ppm) using Amberlite XAD-16.
  • (13) Three-step pretargeted immunoscintigraphy (binder, chaser, tracer) with 111In- or 67Ga-Co(III) Janus produced excellent mouse tumor images in 3 hr with high tumor-to-background ratios.
  • (14) They are Janus-faced: older characters are conduits to the past, embodiments of different times, carriers of knowledge that remains invaluable; yet they are also a glimpse of the future, living now where the young must go.
  • (15) In the long human struggle, the idea of "martyrdom" presents itself with a Janus-like face.
  • (16) Mutation induction after exposures to 250 kVp X-rays, alpha-particles from the radon daughter 212Bi, and fission-spectrum neutrons from the JANUS reactor was studied in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) K1 cells and in CHO-10T5, a K1 derivative containing the bacterial gene xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (gpt).
  • (17) Commercial samples of Acridine Orange, Crystal Violet, Janus Green B,Methyl Violet, Neutral Red, Pyronin B, Pyronin Y(G), Safranin, Victoria Blue B and Victoria Blue 4R have been analysed with this system.
  • (18) janus homopolar doublets go through a corresponding regulation.
  • (19) When required, WR1065, at a final working concentration of 4 mM, was added to the culture medium, either 30 min before and during irradiation with fission spectrum neutrons (beam energy of 0.85 MeV) from the JANUS research reactor, or for selected intervals of time following exposure.
  • (20) The process by which a typical doublet transforms into a janus-like organization involves loss of capacity to form oral structures at one of the two normal oral meridians, followed by interpolation of reversed oral structures at a new location to the cell's right of the disappearing normal oral meridian.

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